The History of Visual and Special Effects in Film
A site that goes from the first use of a motion camera to modern day sci-fi classics from which I learned: Sound, colour, stereo and even multichannel sound were about experimentally way before you would think (try the 1920s!) and just about all the 'firsts' of cinema history that you think you know about are probably wrong!
Also being a fan of old special effects movies I've got about 6 new ones I'm looking out for on DVD now.
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..wil, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 12:32,
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An awful lot of audio and video technology that exists today as 'new'
has, as you say, been around for a lifetime.
One of the first films to use multichannel was Disney's Fantasia and Binaural recording was discovered by Alan Blumlein, who is also well known for developing modern day radar as we know it. All invented long ago before the shit we see in Curry's shop floor.
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Bamboo Steamer, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 15:22,
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